Photographer, Programmer, Entrepreneur.
Greater Los Angeles Area
- Current
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- Co-Founder & CTO at Metroblogging
- Past
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- Chief Technologist at 65media
- CTO/Engineer/IT at 8020 Publishing
- Senior Engineer at Technorati
- General Manager/Technologist/Author at Lockergnome
- Creator at Blogrolling.com
- Chief Technologist at Faction Creative
- Developer/Designer at WebQuest Inc.
- Head Website Programmer at Paramount Pictures
- Founder / Editor / Programmer / Designer at Spew
- Programmer / Project Manager at Boxtop Interactive
- Head Programmer at Rocktropolis
- Head Website Programmer at DigitalFacades
- Education
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- College of DuPage
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Jason DeFillippo’s Summary
Over the past 15 years I've worked on a variety of platforms using a plethora of different languages. My current focus is on WordPress based systems running under a LAMP stack. I manage a large WordPressMU install with several thousand members as well as dozens of individual WordPress blogs.
Jason DeFillippo’s Specialties:
PHP, MySQL, WordPress, WordPressMU, Linux, Apache
Jason DeFillippo’s Experience
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Co-Founder & CTO
Metroblogging
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
November 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)
With over 50 active sites, Metroblogging (Metblogs) is the largest and fastest growing network of city-specific blogs on the Web. From San Francisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Metblogs are a hyper-local look at what's going on in the city. Our hand-picked core of regional bloggers give each site a new perspective on daily life; less calendar listings, more friendly advice. With Metblogs, you can read about life and times in your neighborhood, your favorite places to visit, places where you've never been, or get a feel for them all with the "best of" blog on the hub at http://metblogs.com/
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Chief Technologist
65media
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)
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CTO/Engineer/IT
8020 Publishing
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
June 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 2 months)
I was the only technical staff member at 8020 for the first 6 months of operations in 2006. In that time I set up all internal server operations including mail, database, web and storage servers in addition to writing the entire backend system for JPG Magazine (jpgmag.com) from scratch. JPG Magazine is one of the first websites to completely rely on cloud storage from Amazon’s S3 service and at the time it was the only website to have wholly integrated website user and magazine subscription management. When we acquired more staff in January of 2007 I transitioned into the CTO position. I trained, managed and worked closely with the new programming team and handled system and server operations. When I departed in July 2008 I was maintaining 15 CentOS/RHE Linux servers for 3 main websites including 2 magazines as well as maintaining the core PHP system for JPGmag.com which had grown to 10 Million page views a month.
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Senior Engineer
Technorati
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 4 months)
At Technorati my main responsibilities focused around a total re-write of the PHP layer that powered the front facing website, technorati.com. I took an outdated system and upgraded it to object oriented code where applicable, wrote unified libraries for XML services that glued the Lucene backend and PHP front-end together as well as general day to day logic. I was the liaison between the creative director and the technical staff during our year long re-build and re-branding and part of the product design team that drove the direction of the features of our main product offering. I also wrote new features from the ground up such as the blog claiming system and others.
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General Manager/Technologist/Author
Lockergnome
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
June 2003 — May 2004 (1 year )
Responsibilities included but were not limited to, creating an Article Management System for web and email newsletters that included author tracking and integration with the WhatCounts.com publishing system. Moving entire company website infrastructure to L.A.M.P. and created a suite of tools to facilitate easier day-to-day operations. I also worked extensively with the Sales Manager to create an advertising tracking system that let multiple sales people coordinate more effectively. As part of the ad management system wrote a link click-thru system to track entire suite of company’s outbound links in the over 1,000,000 newsletters we sent every week. In addition to my other duties I also helmed the OS X and Web Developers newsletters from time to time as needed.
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Creator
Blogrolling.com
(Internet industry)
April 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 11 months)
I created this award winning web application for managing lists of links for people with minimal HTML experience. Blogrolling was acquired by Tucows Inc. in February 2004.
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Chief Technologist
Faction Creative
(Privately Held; Graphic Design industry)
February 2000 — February 2003 (3 years 1 month)
I was responsible for a team of programmers, system administrators and artists who developed some of the most highly trafficked websites in the entertainment promotion business. Our clients include Paramount Motion Pictures, MGM, Universal Interactive, USA Films and Fox Studios. My main responsibilities are to develop and implement new technologies that facilitate the marketing goals of our clients. I have created features ranging from simple web-rings to entire production management back-ends. In addition, I functioned as a liaison between artists and technical staff. The web development division was sold to Creative Domain in November of 2002 where we continued uninterrupted in new offices.
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Developer/Designer
WebQuest Inc.
(Internet industry)
November 1998 — September 1999 (11 months)
My main responsibilities included overseeing artists and content producers and helping them integrate their work into multiple template driven websites. I designed and developed a backend content management system to help facilitate the production process. I also designed the template system used for automated content updates spanning multiple websites on mirrored, load balanced SGI webservers.
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Head Website Programmer
Paramount Pictures
(Public Company; VIA; Entertainment industry)
November 1996 — June 1998 (1 year 8 months)
My responsibility was to develop means of using the Internet to promote Paramount’s motion picture properties. I worked with a staff of five artists and one multimedia programmer to develop websites that appealed to the target audiences of the films we were promoting. Most of the websites were highly dynamic user experiences that immersed users into the world of the films we were promoting. We developed some of the very first fully interactive websites on the Internet, dating back to “Star Trek: First Contact” in 1996, for which we used a PERL backend to create chat rooms in a virtual ship. The entire ship changed configuration based upon the time of the day to allow surfers to participate in combat training and other games.
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Founder / Editor / Programmer / Designer
Spew
(Internet industry)
July 1994 — April 1998 (3 years 10 months)
Spew was one of the first web “zines” and broke new ground in web publishing. My main responsibilities were the concept development and execution of web-based games, writing, photographing and designing. Other duties included identifying talented writers and assigning stories or projects. Spew was nominated for a Webby Award from the Web magazine in 1997 and won numerous 'Site of the Day' awards.
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Programmer / Project Manager
Boxtop Interactive
(Internet industry)
August 1996 — November 1996 (4 months)
Programmer on websites for clients such as GUESS? Clothing, Stone Temple Pilots, A&M Records, Barbie Collectibles as well as Star Trek: First Contact.
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Head Programmer
Rocktropolis
(Internet industry)
November 1995 — August 1996 (10 months)
My responsibility was to implement all of the technical features for Rocktropolis 2.0 and administrate the internal network and webservers. I worked closely with the Art Director and Artists to develop site flow and navigation. In addition, I developed original games and content. Other duties included programming and graphics for clients including the San Francisco 49’ers, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, Paramount Pictures, RealAudio, Hypno Magazine, JVC America and Detour Magazine.
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Head Website Programmer
DigitalFacades
(Internet industry)
December 1994 — November 1995 (1 year )
I was the first lead website programmer for Digital Facades when they launched their internet division in 1994. I relocated to California to head up the first website for Epson America and the Starbright Foundation. I rebuilt the publishing system for Buzz Magazine that was eventually folded into Time/Warner’s flagship website, Pathfinder. I also wrote one of the first online auction engines for Numismatists Online that would allow real-time coin auctions on the net.
Jason DeFillippo’s Education
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College of DuPage
Photography 1989 — 1991
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